The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World runs 11.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Assaf Cohen and Susan Duerden (about 7.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 11.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 23 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
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What our data says
- At 11.5 hours, it runs longer than 88% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Assaf Cohen
Assaf Cohen narrates 44 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 446 hours in all.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
1,191 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World is an audiobook by Gulwali Passarlay: a 11.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Assaf Cohen and Susan Duerden, released January 5, 2016, on the Memoirs and History & Culture shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Assaf Cohen, Susan Duerden
- Released
- January 5, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, History & Culture, Law & Politics
- ISBN
- 9780062470690
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World as an audiobook?
The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World runs 11.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.7 hours.
Is The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World?
The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World is narrated by Assaf Cohen and Susan Duerden.
Is The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.7 hours, saving 3.8 hours.